Brad and Liz went to go visit Liz's mother whom she has not seen in over a year. Last week her brother was visiting and she was kind of excited to spend time with him as she had not seen him in a long time either, so yeah, she was gone for a while.

For the past few weeks Brad has been doing a freelance job that has consumed a LOT of his time, and it's to pay for things like rent, food, etc., so that takes a little priority. (It was also to pay for the grand prize of this tournament).

I have been fuck all busy with school and work, so I have not had time to do my match yet. Also, my email, facebook, blogs, all that shit was hacked and I've been trying to figure out how to get them back. My pm from my match partner has not showed up in my inbox and I have no idea why, even though I got an email saying I'd received one (of course now I can't access that email account). So right now I'm trying to get that worked out and I apologize to AngelDragoon for the delay.

So, I'm not saying this so there is pity or anything, I'm just letting you know what is going on right now and why we might be a little late to the party. We're not lazy and I think that is a little uncalled for, so you can stop with the accusations. It's still up to a lot of you guys to get your matches scheduled, not all of this is on Brad to run. Yes it's slowed down a little but it's all going to work out in the end if you guys have a little patience, okay?

Youtuber wrote:What is an MEP exactly? I looked it up but I don't think it has anything to do with being a Member of the European Parliament.

Silk_SK wrote:Whoo-hoo! There it is, the "we're swamped so stop calling us lazy" post. It wouldn't be an IC tournament without one.

Fuck off, Silk. Not everyone has the time to sit around at their computer all day bitching about their match results over and over and over. Stop creating drama dude.

Creating drama? I'm trying to get rid of it. No one actually thinks you're being lazy now that you've come out and explained everything. This happens in every tournament I've been a part of so I'm just hoping to keep things light-hearted this time around. Have a pony.

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.” - Winston Churchill

and yes, I hate the "sorry i have a life" excuse too, but sometimes it just happens. Just thought I'd give everyone a reason why it was happening so they didn't have to just sit in the dark not knowing why.

Youtuber wrote:What is an MEP exactly? I looked it up but I don't think it has anything to do with being a Member of the European Parliament.

Yes, I am back in civilization. Was without internet for a week. And to be fair, as far as the results go, I actually didn't receive the deciding vote until yesterday (though if I had been around, I could've bugged people about it).